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The visit of Secretary of State Bayard to our institution is a grand honor or to it.
We respectfully call the attention of our State exchanges this week to article "Commencement."
K. S. U. may be last in oratory, last in base ball,'but she is certainly still No. 1 with her students.
The Senior classes this year will number thirty-five all told—nineteen collegiate, seven laws, nine normals.
Prof. Lippincott received a letter the first of the week from Secretary Bayard saying he would be in Lawrence on Saturday, June 6th. He will therefore be in Lawrence on Sunday and Monday, his address being Monday evening.
The Board of Regents, at their meeting in June, should discuss the feasibility of placing the study of the Spanish language in the curriculum next year. The settlement of the south-west is making a strong demand for instruction in Spanish.
--past, has clearly demonstrated himself a nuisance. His faculty for attracting attention (making himself heard as it were) to the particular locality in which he locates in an audience, seems entirely too highly developed. It has therefore been decreed "by the powers that be," that beginning next Monday evening with the musical concert, and continuing throughout commencement and for evermore, children under fourteen years of age, unless accompanied by their parents, shall not be admitted to the college building to public exercises.
Chancellor Lippincott makes a precedent to-day in receiving the Senior class of the Leavenworth high school as guests of K. S. U, which it would be well to make general hereafter. The Senior class of high schools of the State induced to visit our institutions in this way would be productive of very good results.
Arrangements have been completed, to begin next week, whereby E. L. McHravey, president of the Business College of this place, also at Atchison, Kansas, will occupy one to two columns of the Courier, during the months to come. The space will be devoted to business college news and items generally.
From the *Academica* of Cincinnati,
we clip the following :
"The University Courier asks that a medical college be established in connection with the Kansas State University. If the Courier works as hard for this as it did for the $50,000 appropriation, we have no doubt but that it will succeed in having a medical school.
The "small boy" in his glorious privileges as a free American citizen in attending concerts, lectures, etc., in the University building in years
The COURIER, in its last two issues, has added 300 papers to its exchange list, the greater part to papers in Kansas. This has been done in order to disseminate well the news of commencement week. We are happy to note the generosity of our exchanges in the State last week in aiding this. Commencement program, with complimentary comments, regularly appear. The press of the State is K. S. U.'s best friend. The COURIER hopes, before many years, to be able financially, to appear regularly in the sanctum of every paper in the State. We find that we have but to get out news of our institution in order to have it well and kindly given general circulation. We appreciate this, and shall ever feel thankful therefor.
--up a chapter of which the order can feel proud.
Special Economics.
This being the first year of this option, Prof. Canfield has allowed those who finished the course to go leisurely and complete the work as they find time. Theses are just coming in, and show fine results. Each contains a complete list of all the authorities referred to in the course of the work, and concludes with a carefully prepared index. Some of the statistical tables and graphic charts are remarkably interesting. The set will be bound and placed in the University library. In most institutions attempting such work students must present a printed thesis, and leave a given number of copies in the library. We will come to that bye and bye.
Those taking this option, while admitting that the work is imperative in its demand on their time and effort, assert that they have found it deeply interesting and very beneficial. For the first time—really for the only time yet—in their University life are they taught how to make comparatively exhaustive use of the library and other similar helps to investigation, and to prepare a full monograph on this topic under consideration. The perfect freedom of inquiry, and the opportunity for giving so much continuous thought to one subject, and thus getting somewhere near "rock bottom," have proved very stimulating and delightful.
The real interest taken is shown by the fact that the theses are far overruning the required length. We understand that one, at least, will exceed twenty thousand words—or the equivalent of not less than seventy ordinary octavo pages.
Among great Americans who have expended their youthful talents in editing college papers, are the poets Holmes and Willis; the statesmen, Everett and Evarts; the eloquent divine, Phillips Brooks, and the pleasing author, Donald G. Mitchell! —Ex.
The class next session will be a large one.
Our Nebraska Sister.
Leaving Lawrence at 4 o'clock one afternoon, you take a zig-zag, seesaw journey east and west until 8 o'clock next morning you find yourself in Linecoln. Lincoln, like Lawrence, is a University town, but a stranger would never know it. The first fact we discerned was that the people of Lincoln knew or cared very little about the University, or the students, except when they caught the "medics" in the gonish resurrection of some departed citizen.
The University building is in the heart of the city, just as if our building were situated in South Park. It is an old building, cracked and dingy, with low ceilings and uninviting reception rooms—a seeming relief by gone days. We climbed to the dome through unfinished stairways, over creaky steps, finally reaching the summit by a long pine ladder which would not bear the weight of two at a time. The view from the top was lovely—a wide expanse of level country, the city with its magnificent churches and public buildings around us, and farther off a salt swamp glistening in the evening sun. The campus is a pretty spot and must afford inexpressible relief to the students after being cooped up all day long in clos-, nara w oo ns.
There seemed to be a want of life and good-fellowship among the students, though from the stories we have heard there has been a superabundance of "life," 'e'en though a paucity of the other article. Nebraska University has long been known for its bitter feuds—among regents, among professors, among students. The secret society war has been waged there with a bitterness unknown elsewhere. A very strange code of ethics exists, one scarcely conceivable to an outsider, and one hardly conducive to etherial bliss. The conflict is between the "ins" and "outs,"—the fraternity and anti-fraternity men. Eavesdropping, spying, stealing of rituals, and like practices, are openly boasted. Neither side is willing to concede any honor to the other, and "no quarters" is the battle cry. We were told that there were even those who would not hesitate to take the solemn obligation of a fraternity in order to reveal its secrets, O, tempores! O, mores!
The literary societies—three in number—are the centers of interest and enthusiasm. The two older ones have finely furnished ball, far ahead of ours here. These two societies are composed exclusively of "barbs," the secret society men having been ousted, after a bitter fight, last fall. The "frats," with their sympathizers, formed a new organization and meet in chapel hall. They need a hall of their own, sadly; a need which some wit thus extemporized on the fly-leaf of a singing book we happened to pick up:
"Come Fraters, poor and needy,
let us get ourselfs a ball.
Though we dress a little seedy,
And it takes our very all;
join together, join together,
Let us work till we can't rest;
Join together, join together,
We must do one local best."
We must do our level best."
We had the pleasure of attending their meeting and have seldom passed a more enjoyable hour. The ___and___are a royal set of fellows.The ladies, representing Kappa Kappa Gamma, are fascinating in a social way and excellent students, making
About half the University boys were dressed in cadet uniform. One fellow wore a mortar-board hat, which carried us back in memory to the sophomore days of the class of '84.
From what we could judge the students are hard workers, and embrace more than the average number of able scholars The faculty includes several men of national reputation.
A new scientific building will be erected this summer. With more commodeous quarters and a disposition among the students to harmonize their interests instead of continuing an unnatural, unreasonable, and disgraceful warfare, the University of Nebraska would be a noble representative of the State.
The Courier to be Continued During Vocation.
It is only through the popularity of the Courier as an advertising medium, that we are enabled to do this. We are under almost double the expense of any paper that has ever been run in our school. We expect the continuance through vacation to so strengthen our subscription list for next year as to enable us, as we have planned and expected, to publish the BEST COLLEGE PAPER IN THE UNITED STATES. K. S. U. can do it, and the Courier now has the foundation upon which to build to that end.
It is with pleasure we announce that through the enterprise of our business managers arrangements have been made for the appearance, semimonthly, of the Courier throughout the summer months. All subscribers whose subscriptions are paid by July 10 will, at their homes or places of location during the months of June, July and August, receive the Courier twice per month.
Notwithstanding the severe factional feeling, bitterness and contest in college journalism the first of this year, we believe the magnanimous course of the Courier since emerging therefrom has won as its friend every fair-minded student and alumnus of K. S. U. Why should we not prosper next year?
Students, before leaving for their homes, should see that their summer addresses are in the hands of the business managers.
Field Day.
At last it is decided to have a Field Day, and the base ball boys are working it up. Every one who can, should enter for some of the contests. The day will be Saturday, June 6th. Entries can be made to any member of the ball club. The following is the list of exercises:
1. Standing long.
2. Throwing weight.
2. Throwing weight.
3. 100 yards dash.
4. Hand spring.
5. Running high jump.
6. Throwing ball.
7. Running long jump.
8. Quarter mile race.
9. Hop, skip and jump.
10. Kicking foot ball.
11. 50 yard race.
12. 50 yard race backwards.
13. Vaulting jump.
17. Light weight wrestle.
16. Heavy weight wrestle.
14. Standing backward jump.
15. High kick.
18. Hurdle race.
19. Free for all, 100 yards race.
Washburn or Bast-Busted.
The Santa Fe train to Topeka Saturday carried a dozen of K. S. U. men who thought they could play ball. The train returning had a sadder but wiser lot of men. On arriving at Topeka the boys were met by a couple of Washburns and escorted to the college, where they disposed of a good dinner in a way which foreboded no good to Washburn. Then a couple of hours were passed watching the field sports, which were very fine, several of the contestants varying the monotonous round of pleasure by fainting.
At 4 c'clock the game of ball was called, Elsworth Ingalls acting as umpire at the request of both captains; and his umpiring all through the game was very fair and just. From the very first half of the first inning Washburn took the lead, and K. S. U. went to pieces as soon as the boys went to the bat. The game was hopeless after the first few innings, and at the end of the ninth the K. S. U. men sighed with relief when they could stop chasing the ball.
The loss of the game is ascribed to the lack of organization, no discipline or practice, want of a catcher, and lastly and chiefly, the Washburn men played the best game.
Though the return home was not lightened by dreams of victory, yet the boys are enthusiastic in their praise of the Washburn nine and the treatment they received from them. Our boys hope to reciprocate soon, and have challenged Washburn to a return game, to be played in Lawrence.
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